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Directly before the Europa League final Gary Mabbutt was interviewed live on the tv channel showing the match, he said that Postecoglou had done a fantastic job at Spurs. A couple of weeks later he was sacked.

Some of these ex players don't want to say anything negative about the club, and why should they.

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Mabutt is a club ambassador right? So he's in a sense employed by the club so yeah, he's not going to be openly critical towards the people writing his paychecks.
Postecogou had support from all sorts of ex-players, one I can think of off the top of my head is Hoddle. So there's no reason for me to believe that Mabbutt wasn't speaking his true mind.

I don't think he's the sort of bloke who would stand there and lie.
 

The Board of Tottenham Hotspur Limited (“Tottenham Hotspur”, the “Club” or the “Company”) is aware of recent media speculation and confirms that its majority shareholder, ENIC Sports & Developments Holdings Ltd (“ENIC”), has received, and unequivocally rejected, separate preliminary expressions of interest in relation to proposals to acquire the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of ENIC from (i) PCP International Finance Limited (“PCP”); and (ii) a consortium of investors led by Dr. Roger Kennedy and Wing-Fai Ng through Firehawk Holdings Limited (the “Consortium”). As a consequence of ENIC’s majority ownership interest in Tottenham Hotspur, were any offer made to acquire ENIC and complete, a mandatory offer would be required under Rule 9 of the Code to acquire the shares of Tottenham Hotspur not already held by ENIC.
The Board of the Club and ENIC confirm that Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale and ENIC has no intention to accept any such offer to acquire its interest in the Club.
In accordance with Rule 2.6(a) of the Code, each of PCP and the Consortium is separately required, by not later than 5.00 p.m. on 5 October 2025, to either announce a firm intention to make an offer for the Company in accordance with Rule 2.7 of the Code or announce that it does not intend to make an offer for the Company, in which case their respective announcements will be treated as a statement to which Rule 2.8 of the Code applies. This deadline can be extended with the consent of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers in accordance with Rule 2.6(c) of the Code. Accordingly, this announcement commences an offer period for the purposes of the Code.
The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur is Peter Charrington (Non-Executive Chairman).
Enquiries:

Tottenham Hotspur Limited
Peter Charrington (Non-Executive Chairman)
+44 (0) 34 4499 5000
Rothschild & Co (Financial Adviser)
Majid Ishaq / Edward Duckett
+44 (0) 20 7280 5000
 
Worthwhile commenting that as Tottenham Hotspur was once quoted and had a number of shareholders who were not bought out by ENIC, an undertaking was
given by the club to be bound by a number of listed company requirements including the Takeover Code.

The announcement above is a requirement of the Takeover Code.
 

The Board of Tottenham Hotspur Limited (“Tottenham Hotspur”, the “Club” or the “Company”) is aware of recent media speculation and confirms that its majority shareholder, ENIC Sports & Developments Holdings Ltd (“ENIC”), has received, and unequivocally rejected, separate preliminary expressions of interest in relation to proposals to acquire the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of ENIC from (i) PCP International Finance Limited (“PCP”); and (ii) a consortium of investors led by Dr. Roger Kennedy and Wing-Fai Ng through Firehawk Holdings Limited (the “Consortium”). As a consequence of ENIC’s majority ownership interest in Tottenham Hotspur, were any offer made to acquire ENIC and complete, a mandatory offer would be required under Rule 9 of the Code to acquire the shares of Tottenham Hotspur not already held by ENIC.
The Board of the Club and ENIC confirm that Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale and ENIC has no intention to accept any such offer to acquire its interest in the Club.
In accordance with Rule 2.6(a) of the Code, each of PCP and the Consortium is separately required, by not later than 5.00 p.m. on 5 October 2025, to either announce a firm intention to make an offer for the Company in accordance with Rule 2.7 of the Code or announce that it does not intend to make an offer for the Company, in which case their respective announcements will be treated as a statement to which Rule 2.8 of the Code applies. This deadline can be extended with the consent of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers in accordance with Rule 2.6(c) of the Code. Accordingly, this announcement commences an offer period for the purposes of the Code.
The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur is Peter Charrington (Non-Executive Chairman).
Enquiries:


Tottenham Hotspur Limited
Peter Charrington (Non-Executive Chairman)
+44 (0) 34 4499 5000
Rothschild & Co (Financial Adviser)
Majid Ishaq / Edward Duckett
+44 (0) 20 7280 5000
This looks suspiciously like a “shit or get off the pot” statement. Could they be trying to force a quick sale?
 
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More or less to come according to Jordan who suggests Danny boy may have been double dealing behind the scenes with a prospective buyer whilst (at the same time) maneuvering a favourable position for himself going forward to the detriment of ENIC and caused a fall out with Lewis who found out and wielded the 🪓...hence the Club statement and the above retraction from the interested party.
 
This looks suspiciously like a “shit or get off the pot” statement. Could they be trying to force a quick sale?

Yes it is a “shit or get off the pot” statement - its designed to ensure there is not an ongoing series of bids put in.

If I were Staverley or the other bidder, I'd decide what amount I wanted to bid and make a verbal bid to test out the waters but unless I got a really positive response, I d give up and wait for 6 months. No point in putting in a formal written offer (offers are expensive to put together (and take a lot of time to arrange binding offers of finance) if the verbal offer is rejected outright.

But to get positive verbal encouragement she'd need to be bidding at the high end of any valuation - maybe 4 bn or so.
 
More or less to come according to Jordan who suggests Danny boy may have been double dealing behind the scenes with a prospective buyer whilst (at the same time) maneuvering a favourable position for himself going forward to the detriment of ENIC and caused a fall out with Lewis who found out and wielded the 🪓...hence the Club statement and the above retraction from the interested party.

Lots of possibilities.

As an example it could be (solely my conjecture) that bids were made to enic say a few weeks ago saying they wanted to bid X but wanted to be able to change out the entire management team (including Levy) ....... Lewis family decided it was better to ask Levy to step down in order for bid (at a high level) to be made.

If that is the case, it maybe a bid will be made and be accepted within the month allowed to them.

If the bid is not made or not accepted then enic/Lewis should now they need to pump more investment money in to support Vennai and Charrington going forward
 
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